Quotes About Expectation

Wishful thinking is a powerful force.

That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch

Often, the most important part of a conversation was the waiting.

whatever is ahead will be better than what you have now.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great surprize to discover that Mr. Wyvern had been asleep for a hundred years or so. 'Well, I shall not mind that so much,' he thought, 'so long as I am not expected to kiss him.

The President of the York society (whose name was Dr Foxcastle) turned to John Segundus and explained that the question was a wrong one. "It presupposes that magicians have some sort of duty to do magic – which is clearly nonsense. You would not, I imagine, suggest that it is the task of botanists to devise more flowers? Or that astronomers should labour to rearrange the stars? Magicians, Mr Segundus, study magic which was done long ago. Why should any one expect more?

I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one

Boating, my dear Mrs. Bedel, is the dullest of all things; don't you think so? Because a boat looks very pretty from the shore, we fancy that the shore must look very pretty from a boat; and when we try it, we find we have only got down into a pit and can see nothing rightly. For my part, I hate boating and I hate the water...

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Authors today wrote so much to a pattern that their public expected it.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

I noticed you right away." She gave me an approving look. "I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh…sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks…

I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?" "I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.

This could be heaven or this could be hell'?" "A lot will depend on the mattress.

Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?

But that peek into his uncensored brain made it clear he too realized there was a good chance things weren't going to work out for us, that the idea of it not working out was already in his mind, and in some corner of his heart he was already preparing for it. And since I was already preparing to prepare for it too, I'm not sure why it made me so sad. But it did. It was like someone cut my lifeline.